Debugging Gcc

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Hari <hari@cse.iitb.ac.in> writes:

>  I am an undergraduate student at IIT Bombay working on the control flow
> of GCC while compiling c code.I am intrested in tracing the path of gcc
> during compilation.I don't see any good material on this topic anywhere.
>  One approach is to  put break points in all of (176) c files 
> in gcc directory and check the flow but that seems to be very time
> consuming . Is there is anyother way out???

The main path of compiling code is in the function
rest_of_compilation().  It calls a series of passes.  See also the
documentation for the -d option.

Ian